NHS Cadets

What is NHS Cadets?

NHS Cadets is a scheme created by St John Ambulance in partnership with the NHS, providing opportunities to explore skills, knowledge and volunteering roles in healthcare. It's aimed at young people aged 14 to 18 who are from communities currently under-represented within the NHS and St John Ambulance.

The programme offers young people health awareness sessions, courses to develop their leadership and communication skills and an insight or experience in volunteering in the NHS.

It's a free programme, consisting of weekly, two-hour sessions for 11 months. Cadets will be supported throughout their volunteering journey by our NHS Cadets Team.

In Shrewsbury there are two different projects:

• NHS Cadets Foundation Programme (14-16), Shrewsbury (Tuesday)
• NHS Cadets Advanced Programme (16-18), Shrewsbury (Thursday)

Once on the NHS Cadets website, select ‘search positions’ and then 'see all programmes and positions'. This will take you to a list of all the available programmes. Click on the one nearest to you then click the 'filter' button - the available programmes in that area will appear. You can then select the one that you want to apply for by clicking 'view details'. It will then take you to the relevant form.